MO - Sophia Knutsen, 7 mos, dies in hot car, St Louis, 23 Aug 2007

[MsFacetious]

In memory of Sophia Knutsen, St. Louis Children’s Hospital is giving away heart-shaped carabiner clips through the Sophie’s KISS program, which stands for Keeping Infants Safe and Secure. The carabiner is meant to remind parents that the most precious thing may be quietly sitting right behind them in a car seat and can die if left behind in a hot car.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_65da8eb2-e818-5c92-9dfc-483b5f4cae7d.html

 

[lindamichelle1]

I look in my car back seat every single time i leave my car somewhere just to make sure theres nothing valuable on the seat or something like someone would want to take and i dont even have children! I dont understand how these people can just "forget" their kid is in the car. you would think the mother would have checked to make sure he did drop the kid off or something at least.
I do see in this day and age how people are expected to do too much and have so much on their mind you just forget things. Im guilty of forgetting lots of things...but a kid in the car? thats a bit odd. If i drove my cat somewhere i check it constantly just to see if he is ok.
Also something I didnt make sense of in the story which i probably just misread, so she asked the husband to meet her somewhere with the car for him to park it? is that what it meant or did she ask him to meet her somewhere with the car to specifically take the kid to daycare and then park it? how could they swap the car keys and not make any mention of the kid?

 

[LinasK]

What a horrible horrible mistake... I would not want to be in the parents shoes. I would probably try and commit suicide myself because I don't know how I would be able to wake up every morning knowing what I did. I'm glad to see though that all of you are realizing that it was a mistake. I noticed over on the ''police dog died in hot car'' thread that people want the Police officer fired and torched alive for leaving a dog in a car...Sorry but dogs will NEVER compare to children.

The point is no Mammal should ever be left in a hot car to die, whether child or animal. I would personally be as upset over the needless death of a dog in a hot car, as I would a child. They are defenseless creatures, unable to free themselves, depending on us. It's pathetic that the mother was a pediatrician, yet couldn't even manage to take care of her own child!!! Hope her medical license got yanked.

 

[LinasK]

I'm glad some posters have been as angry as I was. Although I can't imagine the pain these parents will endure, and I do feel terrible for them, these stories are becoming too common. I really cannot understand this. I just can't understand forgetting one's baby. Ever.

I don't understand why these cases aren't charged with negligence which resulted in the death of a human being. And if it isn't criminal negligence, then perphaps there's another type of charge to bring. A baby died a horrible death because a parent forgot about him and left him in the back seat of a very hot car. There must be something illegal about that. A media-covered court hearing might even bring these situations to the attention of other extremely distracted parents and help prevent future deaths.

This may be far fetched, but what's to keep the next Susan Smith, or a sadistically vengeful spouse in a custody battle, from "accidentally leaving the baby in the car"?

BBM. That's exactly what Justin Ross Harris did.

 

[LinasK]

:clap: :clap: :clap:

I could not agree more. Nobody FORGOT anything.....this is NOT FORGETTING YOUR CHILD. These parents probably whole-heartedly agree with those posters who said they can't fathom a parent 'forgetting' their child.

If I type the words 'tragic accident', we can all read it and will probably all agree on the meaning. There is a reason for this, it's because they sometimes occur.

NOPE!!! I think this is child neglect, plain and simple! I NEVER "forgot" my baby daughter in the car. The only time she ever stayed in the car, was with all the windows wide open in the garage to finish a nap.